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15 Aug
2002
15 Aug
'02
05:46
Landy Roman wrote:
THIS IS SO F#$#$#$# strange suddenly the installer tellsme can't write to /usr/oraInventory but my $ORACLE_BASE IS /opt not usr any idea what got messed up
oracle@pepino:~ > You do not have permission to write to the inventory /usr/oraI nventory/. Installation cannot continue.: Permission denied
oracle@pepino:~ > echo $ORACLE_BASE /opt/oraInventory
Whatever you did, please start at the beginning again, following instructions on www.suse.com/oracle/ this time. Your ORACLE_BASE is completely wrong, should be /opt/oracle/ (or whatever, really), and the inventory directory then goes into $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory. Michael